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Our Viruses, Spyware and other Nasties forum is the place for Q&A-style discussions related to Windows security. Post a HijackThis log here if you think you've got viruses, spyware, adware, malware, or other unwanted guests.

US retail giant Target that hackers gained access to payment card data that could mean 40 million credit and debit card accounts are at risk. An official statement says that the retailer is "aware of unauthorized access to payment card data that may have impacted certain guests making credit and ...

I am not sure where did I pick up this virus, but i do not want it. I have already tryed add or remove programs in my control panel. No luck. It must have something to do with the registry, but I can not able to clean that.The other day ...

According to a from researchers at US security outfit FireEye, a number of computers belonging to diplomats attending the G20 summit in Russia three months ago, including at least five European foreign ministries, were successfully targeted by Chinese hackers. FireEye researchers had monitored a server, one of 23, used by ...

Hello, I am currently running Windows 8 and am having an issue with Internet Explorer. Even with no programs running, IE constantly opens and tries accessing Outlook.com and hits an error screen from Outlook.com saying the requested page cannot be found. While downloading the virus scanners for the logs, I ...

Hey everyone, I've been trying to remove the Dell My Way Search Assistant from my computer. However, whenever I go to the control panel and add/remove programs, I got this error: Error Loading C: PROGRA~1/MyWaySA/SrchAsDe/1.bin/desrcas.dll Someone suggested that I run ccleaner to uninstall it, but I get the same exact ...

I started up my laptop the other day which is windows xp service pack 2, and when I logged in to windows this cmd.exe black screen thing came up for about a second - not enough time to read what it said?! Then about 3 minutes later the blue screen ...

ok so the OS is windows 7 and here is whats happening. he caught it once and we were able to remove it but we cant do it by the same means this time, anyways heres what its doing.. Taskmanager is dissabled. Desktop is gone, no start bar, NO SAFE ...

Hey everyone. Ok, I just noticed that in my Add or Remove Programs window, theres a program called My Way Search Assistant........ obviously spyware or adware of some kind. I need to uninstall it but......... there is no button in the add or remove programs menu that allows me to ...

Hello people i've been trying to make a halware.... well a halware is a programme that keeps on creating .txt files it keeps on looping, using up like tons of GB... i wanna make a type of halware that atleast takes up 500MB per second.... my bro made it (he ...

whenever i open more window in firefox, it gets some accident popups confused me so much. really hate them.but i do not know the causes. pls could anybody here tell me if you once got this problem. many thanks!

I got a notice from "Lifelock" that stated Adobe announced last month that some of its customers' usernames and passwords had been stolen. The company says it reset the stolen passwords and notified its customers. Adobe also says the stolen data included credit-card information for some of its customers. That ...

hello, can someone help me get rid of a toolbar/ or a virus, i don't know what it is/ it's called Gqs.donedrive I have absoluteley no idea how it got there, it just showed up and now I can't remove this annoying little green leprechaun x.x

My browser home pages keep resetting to a page enaricles.com. This happens on both Google Chrome and IE. I reset them manually, but then when I reboot my PC, they reset again. I'm guessing it is some spyware or adware, but I am too much of a software novice to ...

Exploit-based attacks are on the up (1), the majority of IT security professionals aren't sure if they can detect attackers attempting to breach the network (2), and 65% of companies let the tech support department give security training to staff. I would suggest, in order to make some sense of ...

Every time I open IE, it always shows an extra window running and using alot of resources. I try to end it, and it restarts? I have anti-virus and have ran Malware Bytes. I downloaded Chrome (was going to uninstall and reinstall IE), and it now appears to do the ...

Hello folks....it's been awhile but I'm back with a potential nasties issue - my desktop is operating VERY slowly....here's a hijackthis log......can someone take a look and suggest some next steps? Thanks in advance! JD Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 8:38:47 PM, on 7/21/2013 Platform: Windows ...

this keeps popping up in a separate tabe in Google Chrome. Yesterday, it had a cartoon picture of a curvaceous woman with brown skin and blond hair whose teeth were being extracted with a pliers. Underneath the pliers was the caption: "Belief"

Small groups of what are best described as cyber-mercenaries, willing and able to perform surgically precise hit and run hacking operations, are offering their services for hire out of China, Japan and South Korea. That's the conclusion of security researchers at who have been following the progress of a newly ...

Hi CAn anyone help. I have had several incidents of a virus called pianoman that attacks MS documents and adds an extetion 'pianiomancorupt' on all microsoft office documents. No antivirus or virus tool i have tried is helping at the moment. Please help!!!

A Freedom of Information request from staff at the UK offices of the Huffington Post has revealed, according to a BBC report on the story, that more than 300,000 attempts were made to access pornographic websites from the Houses of Parliament during the last 12 months. Of course, just looking ...

UK home shopping pioneers Lakeland have sent an email to all customers past and present to warn them that the retailers website has been hacked. What Managing Director Sam Rayner calls a "sophisticated and sustained attack" took place late on Friday 19th July. Measures were taken at the time to ...

Users of online banking services are at risk from a new 'in the wild' Trojan, Hesperbot, which has been discovered by the ESET malware research lab. Researchers have found that infections of users in Turkey are currently most rife, with users in the Czech Republic, Portugal, Thailand and the United ...

Hello, A while back, I started noticing my internet would crash once in a while, and sometimes would be extremely slow. (Our plan says we're at 18-25mB/s download speed). I downloaded a program called Networx to monitor the network usage and keep track of everything. I check the data usage ...

Everytime I start my computer this comes up: <blockquote>Lsass.exe - Application Error The instruction at "0x00401082" referenced memory at "0x00000000." The memory could not be "written". Click on OK to terminate the program. Click on CANCEL to debug the program.</blockquote> I tried both and for each option, the screen goes ...